It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be through with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Welcome to the next picture show, a movie of the week podcast devoted to a classic film and how it's shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Tasha Robinson here with... Genevieve Kossi. Scott Tobias. Keith Phipps. Here on the next picture show, we believe that no film exists in a vacuum and that all culture is more interesting in context. So every other week, we get together to talk over a classic film and consider how it relates to a current movie. This week, we're going to look at a new science fiction sequel about Androids Inhumanity and see how it stacks up to the original. But first, somebody should do something about that tortoise lying in the corner of the studio over there. Genevieve, it's thrashing around trying to turn itself over, but it can't. Not without your help, but you're not helping. Why is that, Genevieve? Why aren't you helping? Well, for one thing, all my turtle maintenance time goes to my own pet turtle at home. But for another thing, we're trying to record here, Tasha. That tortoise is going to be fine for the next hour. So while we consider Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 and how it takes up the story Ridley Scott's

Blade Runner started back in 1982, Scott's film, a heavily rewritten adaptation of Philip K. Dick's novel

Do Android's Dream of Electric Sheep deals with the far future world of 2019, where artificial people

called replicants have been created to work in hazardous conditions in off-world colonies.

Replicants are banned on Earth, so when some of them rebel in return, Android hunters called blade runners are dispatched to hunt them down and quote-unquote retire them.

Villeneuve's sequel takes up the story 30 years later and has a police replicant called Kaye doing his own Blade Runner work,

retiring models that are

considered obsolete. Both films question what it means to be human, but both of them also keep

the philosophies submerged under action. Maybe to cover up the fact that apparently all you need to be

human is a few convincing stories about your mother and a snappy answer to that turtle question.

Yeah, I can certainly tell many convincing stories about my mother, which is a thing that I have,

because I am definitely a humon.

We'll be right back after this break to talk about both Blade Runner movies, or at least I'll be back

after this break.

The rest of you, it may depend on your Hum human reflexes. I've got four skin jobs walking streets, walking street.

They're either a benefit or a hazard.

They're a benefit. It's not my problem.

Not my problem. Not my problem.

I'm Rachel.

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